Advancing LGBTQI+ Rights, With Julie Dorf

Julie Dorf, co-chair of the Council for Global Equality, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the United States has done and could do to advance LGBTQI+ rights around the world.

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Host
  • James M. Lindsay
    Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Episode Guests
  • Julie Dorf
    Co-chair, Council for Global Equality

Show Notes

Julie Dorf, co-chair of the Council for Global Equality, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the United States has done and could do to advance LGBTQI+ rights around the world.

 

Memos and Speeches Mentioned

 

Hillary Clinton, “Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights,” delivered at the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, December 6, 2011

 

Hillary Clinton, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” delivered at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5, 1995

 

Joseph R. Biden, Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World, The White House, February 4, 2021

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